He Was The Only Thing Keeping Her Alive!

About This Book

     He Was The Only Thing Keeping Her Alive! ©2015 by Raymond Cook is a 286 page (Slight Erotic Content) story about Seth and Susan Anderson, a couple who lived in San Antonio, Texas in 1899 after joining a wagon train in  Independence, Illinois. The couple ran one of the towns many cafés serving food to town folks and ranch hands. But their marriage was doomed from the start.

     Seth liked his whiskey and the card tables in the many saloons in San Antonio. But it wasn’t an argument over a card game that caused Seth’s death. Not only did he like to get drunk and gamble away the couple’s savings but he also liked women. When a gal who worked at a bakery confessed to her husband her infidelity, it didn’t take the angry husband long to find Seth. After a few short curses and threats Seth lay dead on the saloon floor.

     With her husband now dead, Susan struggled for the next three years to keep her small café running, working long hours before heading back to a small one room shack the couple called home behind the cafe. When a letter arrives for Seth, Susan found the letter in her mailbox. She discovers she’s now the sole heiress to ½ ownership of The Danbury Gold Mine, worth millions in Billings, Montana, left to her by her husband’s distant uncle, who she and her husband had barely knew.

     But in order to claim her inheritance, Susan must travel from San Antonio, Texas to Montana within one year. The problem is, her uncle’s partner, Spencer Danbury will claim ownership of the entire gold mine if she fails to collect her inheritance within the deadline. Spencer will do everything he can to stop her from reaching Billing’s alive. A gunfighter saves Susan’s life and she hires him to get her safely to Billings and they fall in love.